About us
Goal│Mission│Guide
Dogs│Service Dogs│Hearing
Dogs│
ONE CORPORATION'S EFFORT TO TEACH
CHILDREN "HOW TO CARE"│
translation assistance by
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP J.P.Morgan Chase & Co Izumi
Serizawa
Goal
While more physically impaired people got chances
to participate in society these days, the bill for Assistant
Dogs for people with a physical impairment was approved in the
Diet in May 2002, and legislated in October 2002.
As a pioneer, we state that we aim the training
and diffusion of Guide Dogs and Service Dogs in order for people
with a visual impairment or a physical impairment to make their
life more fulfilled.
As well as that, although it has been regarded as
one of the challenging goals in any Assistance Dogs Associations,
we would aim to train Guide Dogs which also have a capability
of Service Dogs for a visual impaired person who would appreciate
some physical assistance.
Our fundamental spiritual goal is to establish a
relationship of mutual trust between a man and a man, and a man
and a dog.
Bearing those goals in mind, we would carry on our
training project
Mission
- Training of Guide Dogs and Service Dogs
- Guide Dogs Mobility Service and Service Dogs Mobility Service.
Matching of handlers and Guide Dogs, and handlers and Service
dogs. Team training of handlers and Guide Dogs, and handlers
and Service dogs. Intensive Orientation and Mobility Service
at the residential area. Follow up services after graduation.
- Providing information and consulting service to visual impaired
people and physical impaired people.
- Consulting Service for the nurturing volunteer (puppy walker,
and breeding walker). Breeding class Service (disciplining
program for puppy walkers).
- Educational and Promotional Activity.
Our Nurturing and Training policy In order for dogs
to help people spontaneously in high spirits, we practice total
positive reinforcement as our policy on nurturing and training
dogs.
We know praising is effective to establish and deepen
the trustworthy relationship between a man and a dog.
We believe that it is not until we establish the
relationship that we could bring out the hidden talent in a dog.
Guide Dogs
Guide Dogs are the trained dogs to help visual impaired
people walk safely finding a safe path, stopping at corners and
steps, avoiding obstacles, and going ahead towards the directions
instructed by its handler.
Its handler makes his assessment of the situation
by himself and walks giving instructions to his dog. Thus, the
mobility of visual impaired and his Guide Dog is the teamwork
of a man and a dog.
Service Dogs
Service Dogs are the trained dogs in order to assist
physically impaired people by retrieving objects that are out
of their reach or dropped, by opening and closing doors, turning
switches on and off, help transferring to wheelchairs, putting
on and taking off shoes and clothes, changing positions, assisting
ambulatory persons to walk by providing balance and counterbalance
and many other individual tasks as needed by a physical impaired
person.
Hearing Dogs
Each hearing dog supports its auditory impaired user by communicating
through movement the occurrence of sounds. The hearing dog must
know the differences between the sounds of daily life, such as
babiesﾕ cries, facsimile machine beeps, doorbells, alarm clock
rings, and how to communicate each such sound to the user.
Importantly, such a dog may protect the user by,
for example, communicating that a fire alarm is ringing. The
dog may also help at a bank by communicating to the user when
a bank staff person rings a bell to indicate that it is the userﾕs
turn in line.
A hearing dog is thus able to reduce a userﾕs anxiety
and support the userﾕs ability function in a comfortable and
safe manner. The numbers of hearing dogs in Japan is small.
Training a Hearing Dog
Every kind of service dog must be able to live with
human comfortably and to act properly in public. It is also important
that service dogs live safe and secure lives after retirement.
The Guide Dog & Service Dog Association of Japan has been training
and providing hearing dogs to people in need.
We continue to learn more and more about the training
and use of hearing dogs through our own efforts and cooperation
with experienced trainers outside of Japan.
A Man and a man can live cooperating with each other
Hand in Hand!!!
A Man and a Dog can live cooperating with each other Hand in Paw!!!
ONE CORPORATION'S EFFORT TO TEACH
CHILDREN "HOW TO CARE"
In recent years, more corporations are encouraging
employees to participate in community volunteer activities. J.P.Morgan
Chase & Co. has a firm-wide Global Days of Service annually in
October with thousands of employees participating in volunteer
activities around the world, including Japan.
Last October, JPMorgan Tokyo had a joint project
with the Japan Service Dog Association. JPMorgan volunteers,
together with members of the Service Dog Association, visited
two elementary schools in Chuo-ku to teach children about dealing
with the blind and the important role of guide dogs.
JPMorgan volunteers and three service dogs demonstrated how
guide dogs can assist blind people in leading an active and vigorous
life with the assistance of service dogs. Following the demonstration,
pupils were given hands on training in working with guide dogs
and learning to communicate with the dogs using sign language.
The children also heard from a guide dog user who enthusiastically
explained how he could now function almost normally with his
guide dog replacing his own sight.
These sessions also gave the kids a valuable opportunity
to meet with business people in a joint learning effort.
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